> Backend developers should make a conscious decision on how to ship log events out of the box Great! hand waving. What are you going to do is this log streami

> Backend developers should make a conscious decision on how to ship log events out of the box Great! hand waving. What are you going to do is this log streaming process stops working, and cannot restart? Kill the machine and lose the logs? That might be ok for your webapp, it could be trouble for more serious applications. > You’d be surprised at how much less stress there is when you can have alerts on log events from your application when things break instead of a support call or a support ticket. Giving SSH access doesn't mean you don't have event logs. > stopped teaching people to treat their app and server as a second home, as a pet, that must be nurtured In our case, nobody is treating anything as a pet. Our servers are mostly spot/preemptibles, but we still have SSH access. Because it makes it really easy to debug if things do go badly wrong. From being able to see htop output, to being able to upload custom binaries to investigate an issue, or to smoke test a code change... it's a huge time saver. Give me SSH or give me death.